MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) is a teaching focused fellowship, offered by MIT-AFRICA together with its corporate partner NNPC/Total E&P Nigeria Ltd. MIT-ETT enables Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to experience a semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
WORTH
- Selected fellows will observe instruction in their disciplines and work as a group to prepare innovative curricula and approaches to teaching that can be introduced into their home universities on their return.
- MIT-Empowering the teachers will cover the travel, living and instructional materials expenses of the participants. The home universities of the successful applicants will commit to provide paid leaves of absence during the period of the MIT program.
- The will attend twice-weekly MIT-Empowering the Teachers Seminar meeting, one which will focus on curriculum review and development led by professor Akinwande.
ELIGIBILITY
- Interested in developing new curriculum and teaching methods and consider themselves to be change-agents
- A faculty member holding a phD and teach in a department corresponding to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or Petroleum Engineering at a university in Nigeria
- Lecturer one rank. Applications will be thoroughly vetted
DEADLINE: December 1 2016
To apply and for more information visit here